John Wetton, Bassist in King Crimson and Asia, Passes

Famed prog-rock bassist John Wetton passed away January 31. He was 67 and had recently withdrawn from a tour with Asia to undergo chemotherapy for the colon cancer that took his life. Wetton experienced chart success with…

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Robert Randolph Demonstrates the “I Want It” Riff

Robert Randolph Demonstrates the “I Want It” Riff Robert Randolph’s new album, “Got Soul,” streets on February 17. Here, he uses a SlideKing, made by Jackson Steel Guitar Company, plugged…

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Mojotone Introduces ’56 Quiet Coil P-90

Mojotone’s ’56 Quiet Coil P-90 pickup uses vintage-spec 42-gauge coil wire, lower-gauss Alnico magnets, adjustable polepieces, and vintage braided leads. Completely passive, it uses no PC boards, batteries, stacked coils, or…

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PRS Teams with John Mayer on J-Mod 100 

PRS Guitars and John Mayer have teamed to develop the J-Mod 100, a single-channel guitar amp with switchable gain stage and effects loop. It uses four 6L6 power tubes, four…

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Pigtronix Introduces Disnortion Micro

The Pigtronix Disnortion Micro offers the same CMOS Fuzz and Overdrive circuits as the large-format original, in a version that runs on 9 volts. It can switch from a parallel routing to…

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Mashhour Offers “Fretboard PhD” Book

Ashkan Mashhour’s new book, Master the Guitar Fretboard Through Intervals, is a course designed to help the reader learn intervals, thus allowing free, confident navigation the neck. Go to pelemeleworks.com.

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